Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10
SWIFT RETRIDUYION.
A RAVIsHER LYNCHED IN KEN
TUCKY-DETAILs or A HORRI'
BILE CRIME.


LOUISVILLE, KY, June L.
Sh eriG Lewis, of Gibson county,
Ind, arrived in the city last night,
and brought the news Of a very |
sensational affair happening in
Crawford county Sunday. A four
teen.year.old daughter OF John
Flanagan, near Boston, that cOun-
ty, was carried away crGelly aud
fOulIy assaulted and outraged. AT
ten o'clock Sunday morning, Wal
ter, and Charles Davies, ,brothers,of
bad repute, visited the Flanagan
residence, which is situated eight
miles from this place, in Perry
county, and finding the family
from home, save the daughter and
her two brothers, they told the
Flanagan boys that some stray
stock was breaking into the farm a
mile away from the house. The
Flanagan boys started over to see
about the supposed stray and
obstreperous stock. No sooner
had they started to look after the
supposed stray stock than the
Davies boys carried the young
daughter of Flanagan to a neigh.
boring wood, and there the out
rage-tOo foul for description-was
enacted. A handkerchief was
placed over her mouth, and the
girl was tied to a tree while her
person was violated. After this
most fendish assault, she was
beaten with a stick OF wood and
,eit for dead. When the two broth
ers returned home a search was
made for the missing sister. An
all.nIght hunt tailed to discover her
whereabouts, but on Monday morn
ing some of the neighbOrs found the
girl, almost dead, tied to a tree in
the woods. She stated that after
the assault upon her the two men
pointed pistols at her aud threaten.
ed to shoot her if she made any
outcry curing the night. The two
Davies boys who made the assault
we're found IN tue woods near the
suffering girl on Monday morning.
One account states that both Of
them were taken to a sapling near
by and lynched, after they had con-
fessed the deed. Another states
that Walter Dawes escaped, but
that Just after dark his brother
Charles was found concealed under
a bouse, and was dra gged out by
the infuriated mob. He was terri.
fed and quakiug with feaI. lie
was securely strapped to a horse
and driven back to the spot where
be had rayished the girl. lie beg
ged for mercy, bnt his cries were
unheeded. lie was taken from the
horse, his hands tied behind him,
AMI was given two minutes in
which to pray. He availed him
self of the time allow ed, and at the
expiration of it a stout sapling
was bent down, a sh Ort rope tied
to the top, with the otherend about
Davies neck. Six men held down
the tree, and when it was re-
leased. it flew back into position,
and Dawes was ierked twenty feet
into the air. The force threw bin
over the top OF the tree, and as the
rope brought him up short on the
other side, his neck was broken.-
The body was riddled with bnllets
by the crowd, and was allowed
to hang there until yesterday
morning, when it was cut down by
his father and given burial.
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 3.-La-
ter reports from Eckert, Ind,
where the Davies boys were lynch
ed for abducting and brutally as
sanlting Miss Flanagan, says that
Wm. KellaT, fatherin.law OF one
Of the Dawes boys, was lynched at
the sane time. 1t is also reported
that the mob went to the home Of
Mrs. Emlow, the mother of the
Davies boys, and dragged away
Andrew EmlOw, a younger son OF
the old woman. His body has not
been found, and the Iynchers will
not tell what was done with him.
Miss Flanagan is recovering.